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5 craziest crimes of the week

An Oregon man was accused this week of shoplifting items and stashing them in his kilt.(Photo: Paul Hill, Getty Images/iStockphoto)

An alleged kilt-wearing criminal and a taker in the ice bucket challenge make appearances in the weirdest crime stories of the week:

1. Guy charged with using his kilt ... to shoplift: A toy helicopter, audio car charger, and computer mouse are just a few of the small items that an Oregon man is accused of stashing in his kilt (yes, kilt) during a visit to a Fry's Electronics store. The kilt was reportedly "modified" specifically for the shoplifting spree.

3. Kid writes story about killing a dinosaur, gets arrested: A high school freshman in South Carolina wrote a story for a class assignment about his neighbor's pet dinosaur. Problem is, he also wrote that he killed that dinosaur using a gun — and teachers were so alarmed they called the cops. The teen was arrested and suspended from school for three days.

4. Cops: Man, 85, tried to sneak pot to jailed grandson: Talk about a bad grandpa—or a good one, depending on your perspective. Police in Ohio arrested an 85-year-old man and charged him with trying to smuggle pot into the a correctional institution while on a visit to see his grandson. He now faces seven years behind bars himself.